Economist Dean Baker to discuss recession and prospects for recovery on Sept. 12

Dean Baker, who in 2002 was one of the first economists to assert there was a bubble in the U.S. housing market, will examine the nation’s current recession and prospects for recovery during a lecture on Monday, Sept. 12 at Roosevelt University.
 
Co-founder and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., Baker writes and lectures regularly on current issues facing the American economy and has been a frequent guest on TV and radio programs for CNN, CBS News, MSNBC, PBS News Hour and National Public Radio.

The author of numerous books about the U.S. economy, a weekly columnist for the Guardian Unlimited and a regular commentator on economic reporting for his blog, Beat the Press, Baker will be the University’s 2011 Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt distinguished lecturer. Topic of his lecture will be “The Great Recession: How We Got Here and Prospects for Recovery,” which is being held at 6 p.m. Sept. 12 in the University’s seventh-floor Ganz Hall, 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago.
 
Sponsored by the Center for New Deal Studies at Roosevelt University and the Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park, N.Y., this lecture is presented in partnership with portoluz, as part of the year-long series WPA 2.0., a brand new deal. For more information on the series, please visit www.portoluz.org.  For information or to reserve a space for the Roosevelt lecture, contact fdrlecture@roosevelt.edu or call 312-341-3838.